Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Article	Citations
The basal ganglia and the cerebellum in human emotion	99
Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices	71
The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis	69
Inter-brain synchrony in teams predicts collective performance	68
Tools of the Trade Multivoxel pattern analysis in fMRI: a practical introduction for social and affective neuroscientists	61
Neural synchrony in mother–child conversation: Exploring the role of conversation patterns	58
Shared and distinct functional networks for empathy and pain processing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI studies	57
Neurostructural correlates of hope: dispositional hope mediates the impact of the SMA gray matter volume on subjective well-being in late adolescence	54
Tools of the trade: estimating time-varying connectivity patterns from fMRI data	52
Brain and motor synchrony in children and adolescents with ASD—a fNIRS hyperscanning study	50
Attentional conditions differentially affect early, intermediate and late neural responses to fearful and neutral faces	44
Beyond synchrony: the capacity of fMRI hyperscanning for the study of human social interaction	44
Dual brain stimulation enhances interpersonal learning through spontaneous movement synchrony	44
Touch and social support influence interpersonal synchrony and pain	43
HyPyP: a Hyperscanning Python Pipeline for inter-brain connectivity analysis	42
Interpersonal similarity of autistic traits predicts friendship quality	35
Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials	33
Is obesity related to enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues? A review and meta-analysis	33
Childhood violence exposure and social deprivation are linked to adolescent threat and reward neural function	31
The role of social isolation in opioid addiction	30
Shifting prosocial intuitions: neurocognitive evidence for a value-based account of group-based cooperation	30
A hierarchical model for interpersonal verbal communication	28
Social network analysis for social neuroscientists	27
Childhood trauma, brain structure and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants	26
The integration of social and neural synchrony: a case for ecologically valid research using MEG neuroimaging	24

Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety	23
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants	23
The neural networks underlying reappraisal of empathy for pain	23
Sex differences in the human reward system: convergent behavioral, autonomic and neural evidence	23
Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy	22
The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts	22
Effects of HF-rTMS over the left and right DLPFC on proactive and reactive cognitive control	22
Transient brain networks underlying interpersonal strategies during synchronized action	21
Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory	20
Seven computations of the social brain	19
Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity	19
Affective brain patterns as multivariate neural correlates of cardiovascular disease risk	18
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience	18
Reduced feelings of regret and enhanced fronto-striatal connectivity in elders with long-term Tai Chi experience	18
Beyond the average brain: individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality	18
Neural evidence for cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of math anxiety	18
Being ‘in sync’—is interactional synchrony the key to understanding the social brain?	17
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	17
Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing	17
Conducting decoded neurofeedback studies	17
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	16
Neural mechanisms of self-affirmation’s stress buffering effects	16
The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: an fMRI meta-analysis	16
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	16
Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility	15
Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence	15
Newborn white matter microstructure moderates the association between maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant negative reactivity	15
Inter-brain amplitude correlation differentiates cooperation from competition in a motion-sensing sports game	15
The relationship between childhood stress and distinct stages of dynamic behavior monitoring in adults: neural and behavioral correlates	15
The role of anterior prefrontal cortex (area 10) in face-to-face deception measured with fNIRS	15
The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity	15
Common neural and transcriptional correlates of inhibitory control underlie emotion regulation and memory control	15
Neural representation of the parent–child attachment from infancy to adulthood	15
Neural processes for live pro-social dialogue between dyads with socioeconomic disparity	15
Context-based interpersonal relationship modulates social comparison between outcomes: an event-related potential study	15
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits	15
Impact of exercise on older adults’ mood is moderated by sleep and mediated by altered brain connectivity	14
Multivariate model for cooperation: bridging social physiological compliance and hyperscanning	14
Comparing two facets of emotion perception across multiple neurodegenerative diseases	14
Fear conditioning prompts sparser representations of conditioned threat in primary visual cortex	14
Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions	14
Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap	14
Effects of acetaminophen on risk taking	14
Body sway predicts romantic interest in speed dating	14
Concordance in parent and offspring cortico-basal ganglia white matter connectivity varies by parental history of major depressive disorder and early parental care	13
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions	13
Mind the social feedback: effects of tDCS applied to the left DLPFC on psychophysiological responses during the anticipation and reception of social evaluations	13
The social brain in female autism: a structural imaging study of twins	13
Morning brain: real-world neural evidence that high school class times matter	13
Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry	13

Facing stereotypes: ERP responses to male and female faces after gender-stereotyped statements	13
Dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex track distinct properties of dynamic social behavior	13
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	13
Inter-brain neural mechanism underlying turn-based interaction under acute stress in women: a hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	13
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	13
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study	13
Prejudice drives exogenous attention to outgroups	13
Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study	12
Sex-specific interaction between cortisol and striato-limbic responses to psychosocial stress	12
Midfrontal-occipital θ-tACS modulates cognitive conflicts related to bodily stimuli	12
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study	12
Population variability in social brain morphology for social support, household size and friendship satisfaction	12
Recognizing humanity: dehumanization predicts neural mirroring and empathic accuracy in face-to-face interactions	12
A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals	12
The personality dispositions and resting-state neural correlates associated with aggressive children	12
How do expectant fathers respond to infant cry? Examining brain and behavioral responses and the moderating role of testosterone	12
Trait self-control mediates the association between resting-state neural correlates and emotional well-being in late adolescence	11
Social optimism biases are associated with cortical thickness	11
Default mode network functional connectivity negatively associated with trait openness to experience	11
The brain network in support of social semantic accumulation	11
From scanners to cell phones: neural and real-world responses to social evaluation in adolescent girls	11
Non-invasive stimulation of the social brain: the methodological challenges	11
The orbitofrontal cortex spontaneously encodes food health and contains more distinct representations for foods highest in tastiness	11
Anterior cingulate gyrus acts as a moderator of the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms in college students	11
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	11
Multivariate spatial feature selection in fMRI	11
Consequences of prefrontal tDCS on inhibitory control and reactive aggression	11
Windowed multiscale synchrony: modeling time-varying and scale-localized interpersonal coordination dynamics	11
Situating language in a minimal social context: how seeing a picture of the speaker’s face affects language comprehension	11
An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage	10
Dissociable neural signatures of passive extinction and instrumental control over threatening events	10
Your presence soothes me: a neural process model of aversive emotion regulation via social buffering	10
Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect	10
Resting-state functional connectivity of neural circuits associated with primary and secondary rewards in patients with bipolar disorder	10
Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy	10
Interactions between decision-making and emotion in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease	10
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding	10
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain	10
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases	10
Shared and unique neural circuitry underlying temporally unpredictable threat and reward processing	10
Neural mechanisms of reward and loss processing in a low-income sample of at-risk adolescents	10
Neural correlates of integrated self and social processing	10
tDCS effect on prosocial behavior: a meta-analytic review	9
Humans’ pupillary contagion extends to cats and dogs	9
Left superior temporal sulcus morphometry mediates the impact of anxiety and depressive symptoms on sleep quality in healthy adults	9
Self-face and emotional faces—are they alike?	9
Systemic inflammation is associated with differential neural reactivity and connectivity to affective images	9
Not all errors are alike: modulation of error-related neural responses in musical joint action	9
Hippocampal subfield alterations in pediatric patients with post-traumatic stress disorder	9
A syncing feeling: reductions in physiological arousal in response to observed social synchrony	9
Effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others	9
Social cognitive network neuroscience	9
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation	9
Subsequent memory effects on event-related potentials in associative fear learning	9
Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability	9
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	8
Neural indicators of food cue reactivity, regulation, and valuation and their associations with body composition and daily eating behavior	8
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio	8
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression	8
Orbitofrontal cortex connectivity is associated with food reward and body weight in humans	8
Emotion depends on context, culture and their interaction: evidence from effective connectivity	8
Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child	8
Economic threat heightens conflict detection: sLORETA evidence	8
BOLD activity during emotion reappraisal positively correlates with dietary self-control success	8
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	8
Neural reference groups: a synchrony-based classification approach for predicting attitudes using fNIRS	8
Neural dynamics of monetary and social reward processing in social anhedonia	8
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study	8
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence	8
Neural correlates of successful costly punishment in the Ultimatum game on a trial-by-trial basis	8
Longitudinal self-concept development in adolescence	8
Default network interactivity during mentalizing about known others is modulated by age and social closeness	8
Studying the precuneus reveals structure–function–affect correlation in long-term meditators	8
Default and executive networks’ roles in diverse adolescents’ emotionally engaged construals of complex social issues	8
Gray matter correlates of impulsivity in psychopathy and in the general population differ by kind, not by degree: a comparison of systematic reviews	8
Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth	8
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study	8
A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat	7
Computational approaches to the neuroscience of social perception	7
Neural correlates of negative emotion processing in subthreshold depression	7

Interpersonal brain synchronization under bluffing in strategic games	7
Social-specific impairment of negative emotion perception in alexithymia	7
Causal role of the right temporoparietal junction in selfishness depends on the social partner	7
Correlates of neural adaptation to food cues and taste: the role of obesity risk factors	7
Depressive symptoms and social context modulate oxytocin’s effect on negative memory recall	7
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates	7
Brain activation during the observation of real soccer game situations predicts creative goal scoring	7
Default and control network connectivity dynamics track the stream of affect at multiple timescales	7
In context: emotional intent and temporal immediacy of contextual descriptions modulate affective ERP components to facial expressions	7
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	7
Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-referential information processing and encoding in older and younger adults	7
The hierarchical sensitivity to social misalignment during decision-making under uncertainty	7
Evidence-based umbrella review of cognitive effects of prefrontal tDCS	7
Functional connectome fingerprint of holistic–analytic cultural style	7
The modulating impact of cigarette smoking on brain structure in panic disorder: a voxel-based morphometry study	7
Sex-specific relationships between face memory and the N170 component in event-related potentials	7
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis	6
EEG alpha and theta signatures of socially and non-socially cued working memory in virtual reality	6
Neuro-computational foundations of moral preferences	6
Altered functional connectivity during face processing in children born with very low birth weight	6
In search of the most reproducible neural vulnerability factors that predict future weight gain: analyses of data from six prospective studies	6
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on fairness-related decision-making	6
Stress-related hippocampus activation mediates the association between polyvictimization and trait anxiety in adolescents	6
Alexithymia and somatization in agenesis of the corpus callosum	6
Appearance concerns are uniquely associated with LPP amplitude to pictures of oneself	6
Dynamic computation of value signals via a common neural network in multi-attribute decision-making	6
Optimistic amnesia: how online and offline processing shape belief updating and memory biases in immediate and long-term optimism biases	6
Neural rhythmic underpinnings of intergroup bias: implications for peace-building attitudes and dialogue	6
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis	6
The sound of silence: an EEG study of how musicians time pauses in individual and joint music performance	6
Effective connectivity of the human mirror neuron system during social cognition	6
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging	6
The representation of mental state information in schizophrenia and first-degree relatives: a multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data	6
Prefrontal cortical thickness, emotion regulation strategy use and COVID-19 mental health	6
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	6
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	6
The posterior cerebellum and inconsistent trait implications when learning the sequence of actions	5
Effective cerebello–cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling	5
A systematic review of implicit attitudes and their neural correlates in eating behaviour	5
Perceiving actions before they happen: psychological dimensions scaffold neural action prediction	5
Maladaptive self-focused attention and default mode network connectivity: a transdiagnostic investigation across social anxiety and body dysmorphic disorders	5
Morphometry of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with eating dispositions in early adolescence: findings from a large population-based study	5
Distinct neural couplings to shared goal and action coordination in joint action: evidence based on fNIRS hyperscanning	5
Sex differences in the behavioral inhibition system and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity	5
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	5
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	5
Neighborhood disadvantage, race/ethnicity and neural sensitivity to social threat and reward among adolescents	5
When brain stimulation backfires: the effects of prefrontal cortex stimulation on impulsivity	5
The influence of prior intention on joint action: an fNIRS-based hyperscanning study	5
Fathers’ involvement in early childcare is associated with amygdala resting-state connectivity	5
The role of objecthood and animacy in apparent movement processing	5
Relationalvsrepresentational social cognitive processing: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data	5
Fear-induced increases in loss aversion are linked to increased neural negative-value coding	5
Effortless retaliation: the neural dynamics of interpersonal intentions in the Chicken Game using brain–computer interface	5
Mapping the ‘funny bone’: neuroanatomical correlates of humor creativity in professional comedians	5
Musical rhythm effects on visual attention are non-rhythmical: evidence against metrical entrainment	5
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin	5
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation	5
Cognitive processes during deception about attitudes revisited: a replication study	5
Activating the attachment system modulates neural responses to threat in refugees with PTSD	5
Understanding heterosexual women’s erotic flexibility: the role of attention in sexual evaluations and neural responses to sexual stimuli	5
Neural correlates of affective stimulus evaluation: a case-by-case analysis	5
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	5
Neurocognitive processing of infant stimuli in mothers and non-mothers: psychophysiological, cognitive and neuroimaging evidence	5
Brain microstructural properties related to subjective well-being: diffusion tensor imaging analysis	5
Stereotypes bias face perception via orbitofrontal–fusiform cortical interaction	5
Processing of facial expressions of same-race and other-race faces: distinct and shared neural underpinnings	5